Lahat ng Kabanata ng Claimed By My Father’s Outlaw : Kabanata 41 - Kabanata 50

COLEThe safe house was nothing but four rotting walls and a leaking roof on the edge of the bayou, but it was the only place we had left. I killed the engine and caught Raine as she slid off the back of the bike, her body limp and burning with fever. Blood soaked both of us. My shoulder felt like it was on fire, but none of that mattered at the moment.Isla and Ronn helped me carry her inside. The doc we’d dragged along worked fast, cutting away her shirt, cleaning the wound that had torn open again during the chaos at the mill. I stayed on my knees beside the cot, holding her hand, whispering shit I wasn’t even sure she could hear.“You stay with me,” I kept saying. “You hear me, Raine? You don’t get to leave me now.”Her fingers twitched in mine.Ronn patched my shoulder while Isla stood watch at the window. The silence between us was very heavy. We’d lost more brothers tonight. The club was split down the middle. And Vex Mercer was still out there, breathing, hunting us like dogs.

COLEI stood at the cracked window, watching the bayou for any sign of movement while Raine slept behind me. Every few minutes I glanced back at her, checking the slow rise and fall of her chest. The fever had broken, but she was still too pale, too fragile after everything Vex had put her through. My own shoulder throbbed like a bastard under the fresh bandage, but I ignored it, because pain was familiar to me.Ronn limped over and handed me a cup of shitty instant coffee. “We’ve got maybe twelve hours before Vex’s scouts pick up our trail again. The loyal guys are scattered. Some are still with us. The rest are sitting this out or already talking to the Serpents.”I took a sip, and I spat it out immediately. It tasted like dirt, but I didn’t have any other options, so I gulped it down. “Dahlia did more damage than I thought.”“She always was playing both sides,” Ronn muttered. “But this? Selling out the women? That’s a new low even for her.”I looked back at Raine again. She had shi

COLEThe safe house creaked around us, the walls filled with green algaes. I kicked the door shut and leaned against it for a second, letting the adrenaline crash through me. My shoulder burned like fire under the bandage, but that pain was nothing compared to the look on Raine’s face. She stood in the middle of the cramped room, her arms crossed, eyes blazing with a mix of exhaustion and fury.I’m certain she had overheard Ronn and I’s discussion about Jax, and was completely thrown off. There was no one else who knew about Elena.Isla and Ronn had stepped outside to give us space. L“You promised,” Raine said, her voice shaking. “No more secrets that could get us killed. You looked me in the eye and swore it, Cole.”I set my pistol on the rickety table, buying myself a second. “Raine—”“No.” She stepped closer, her jaw tight. “Every time I start to believe in us, another half-truth slips out. You told me Vex killed your wife in some random brawl. That was the story. But tonight, whe

COLEThe bolt hole felt smaller with the new wound on my arm throbbing. Raine was still pressed against me from the truck cab after we finally killed the engine behind the old bait shop. Her hand hadn’t left my arm the whole ride, like she was afraid I’d bleed out if she let go. I killed the lights and just sat there for a second, listening to the river slap against the pilings.“You okay?” she asked quietly.“Yeah.” I wasn’t. The handler’s text burned in my head. Vex’s alive. Stand down on personal vendettas. I helped her out of the cab anyway, taking most of her weight when her bad leg buckled.Inside, Isla had already cleared a table. We laid out the crates we managed to grab. Raine sliced one open and pulled out a brick, holding it up like evidence in court. “This is cartel product. Vex’s stamp on the packaging. If we leak this right, half the Serpents will turn on him.”Ronn whistled low. “Or they’ll shoot the messenger first.” He said deadpan.We spent the next few hours turning

COLEMorning light filtered through the bait shop’s grimy windows. I hadn’t closed my eyes all night. Someone sleeping under the same roof as Raine was selling us out to her father. I watched her sleep, tracing the curve of her cheek, down to the faint scar along her collarbone. If that traitor opened his mouth, Vex wouldn’t stop at me.She stirred, stretching against me with a sleepy hum. “You’re staring again,” she murmured, her eyes still half-closed.“I can’t help it. You’re the only thing worth looking at.” I pulled her closer, kissing her slow and deep. She answered instantly, rolling on top of me, her hands framing my face.“Cole,” she whispered against my mouth, voice husky. “Whatever is keeping you up, tell me. Don’t shut me out.”Instead of answering, I kissed her harder. She rocked against me, grinding slow, her body warm and demanding. “I need you,” she breathed. She sat up, taking me inside her in one smooth motion.I groaned, sitting up to meet her, my mouth on her brea